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Helicopter Parents 7 TABLE 1.1B: Source Frequency Percent of all Percent of those with clear type Percent of those that are not blogs Newspaper 8 8% 8% 11% General magazine 8 8% 8% 11% Business magazine 8 8% 8% 11% College magazine/ Web site 8 8% 8% 11% Online news 7 7% 7% 10% Dictionary 7 7% 7% 10% Other 7 7% 7% 10% Health or psychology magazine 5 5% 5% 7% Religious magazine 4 4% 4% 5% Wikipedia 2 2% 2% 3% Unclear 3 3% Total 100 100% 100% 100% TABLE 1.1C: Age of Children Frequency Percent of all Percent of those with specific age General or unclear 49 49% Before college 28 28% 55% College 14 14% 27% Post college 9 9% 18% 100 100% 100% Table 1.1 (continued) Helicopter Parenting as a Moral Panic Consensus and Concern The authors of the 100 items we coded largely agree that helicopter par- enting is a problem. Almost two-thirds (71 percent) view helicopter parent- ing negatively another fifth are mixed or neutral. Almost none (3 percent) express a positive view of what they believe that practice to be (Table 1.2A).